The Midwest Is Such A Tabula Rasa.

My Goal For Technology Has Always Been To Reach A Point Where The Technological Mediation Becomes Invisible.

I Think That If The Novel's Task Is To Describe Where We Find Ourselves And How We Live Now, The Novelist Must Take A Good, Hard Look At The Most Central Facts Of Contemporary Life - Technology And Science.

Reading Is The Last Act Of Secular Prayer.

The Web: Yet Another Total Disorientation That Becomes Status Quo Without Anyone Realizing It.

Science Is Not About Control. It Is About Cultivating A Perpetual Condition Of Wonder In The Face Of Something That Forever Grows One Step Richer And Subtler Than Our Latest Theory About It. It Is About Reverence, Not Mastery.